"Palais de Steff" has arrived and is a work in progress.
So come on in...grab a cocktail... or the nearest available houseboy and make yourself at home...feel free to wander about or just plonk yourself down and stay a while...
Princess says "Hello and Welcome"!...

Friday, October 16, 2015

The title of this post sounds a bit like a line from a very bad musical

but let's continue our tour shall we?

Tweed Heads/ Coolangatta

The River Tweed acts as the State Boarder between New South Wales to the South and Queensland to the North

The view from the top.

A walk down and around the headland onto Queensland's Coolangatta Beach

then back into New South Wales and Tweed Heads

Nearly did me in darlings... The down hill stroll was lovely...

But let me tell you... Hauling my arse back up the very same hill was a bitch!

I thought that I was going to die on several occasions

Talk about being un-fit...

Not only was I coming to terms with that ugly fact But then...

as if to have salt rubbed into my gaping wounds...

I had my very first taste of ageism darlings!

No really! Agesim!

There was I... shattered and gasping for breath as I hauled myself upward along the pathway using the handrail when I hear from behind me...

"Out of the way Grandpa...Coming thru!"

I turned around in response to the comment thinking that it had been made to some gentleman behind me.

Imagine my horror in realising that I was the "Grandpa" being referred to!

And racing up the hill toward me at a pace...

Came a stampede of feral sporty mums... about 5 in all...

You know the ones... wearing gaudy lycra body suits, sports sunglasses, headband with matching wristbands and running shoes, earplugs wired to some sort of musical device and, a pram full of baby in front of them...

"Rude bitches" I gasped back at them while trying to catch my breath

As they thundered past in a clouded mix of stale perfume and sweat and dirty nappy...

I hoped in earnest that their sporty three wheeled prams all got a flat tyres.

Despite my ordeal I did manage to get a few pics to share with you

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In the pic at the top... the small black dots in the water... just out past the rocks...

are a colony of surfers, sitting on their surfboards awaiting

the next attack from a great white shark...(There had been several shark attacks, one fatal in the weeks prior to our vist)

And further away in the distance

you can just see the towering apartments of

"The Gold Coast"

A popular tourist destination...

The view from the bottom... including a rock painted as a tree frog...

Can you spot the scantily clad lad standing on a rock? He is halfway up the escarpment to the left of the frog...

I could only imagine what he was getting up to

The view of the Tweed River where it empties into the ocean between the two break-walls.

As you can see....

the day was quite overcast and it was very windy

needless to say there wan't much action on the beach...

Although the car park was quite busy I think most of the people were patronising theAllegedly...very good coffee establishment across the road...

I wouldn't know... as the Empress insisted on packing a Thermos Flask of hot waterand all the accoutrements to make our own refreshments...

The river Tweed

The tweed is a large river that winds it's way slowly from the mountainsthen meanders out across the fertile flood plains...Where sugar cane, bananas and potatoes are grown.The smoke in the distance is a sugar cane crop being burnt off before harvest

heading off somewhere further down the coast... Sadly... every time they surfaced I had the camera pointing in the wrong direction

But they were quite fascinating to watch all the same...

As were some brave gents taking to the water and making the most of some bright sunshine....

We spied a lone board paddler communing with a pod of dolphins...

The dolphins made their way through a small colony of surfers further up the beach... the dolphins remained quite camera shy... and there were more whales spotted at the mouth of the river and crowds were gathering to see them

We decided to drive to higher ground to see if we could get a better view of the dolphins... and whales... But alas... by the time we had made our way through some roadworks, traffic lights, and finally found the road up to the point... the crowd on the breakwater and the dolphins and whales had gone.

Even the surfer colony had given up on the lack of swell and had gone too...

The rocky beaches are my favourite... but I'm also partial to long windswept stretches of wide open sands, sea and sheltering trees. I was trying to avoid being seen standing there with my mouth agape and drooling in fantasy... The lightening storm came later in the week and I hoped that the stampeding sports mums were all out doing their thing in the middle of it while their kiddies were all safely being cared for in day-care

GRANDPA!!!!! Why I must say, you are most the Lady. I would have be very rude with some nasty word sling at them! But all that aside, what a beautiful day and the pictures are my favorite! The Lads on the rocks? The one in jeans must be something. As little as the picture is I can still see his pecs. The whale watch is amazing. Such magnificent creatures.

Those bitches only saw you from behind trudging up hill, huffing and puffing like a grampus, however, if they had turned around and caught a glimpse of your youthful face I am sure they would have thought differently.

A few years ago I was looking for men on Gaydar when I received a message from a young twinky saying how much he liked 'Daddy' types, I was shocked, not only did I delete his message, I deleted my profile, never to return. I wept bitter tears and had my brow surgically lifted.